Community discussion emerges on Hacker News and Lobsters
1 Nov 2 3:37 AM · 9d ago · 3 posts · 2 sources · development 1 of 1
The GEFS update gains traction on tech discussion platforms, with commenters expressing enthusiasm for a modern filesystem on OpenBSD while noting the project is not yet in the official tree.
“A modern filesystem has been missing in OpenBSD for quite a while now. GEFS seems to fit the general mindset and is developed inside the tree already, so I'm really excited about it!”
Undeadly commenterOri GEFS developerMartijn GEFS contributor
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I spent the morning reading design document on GEFS. It’s quite interesting!
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Sadly, the incentives often work the other way. If a paper explains its core ideas well enough, reviewers often say that it is too obvious to merit being a contribution at a top-tier venue. I tend to have the opposite view: if you have explained the problem so well that your solution is obvious after reading that part of the paper (but not before…
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I too really wanna recommend that read to everyone, even when not interested in GEFS or file systems. This is what in my opinion technical writing should look like. Really great clear non-self-obsessed writing. [off topic rambling on scientific writing] I think scientific paper authors can learn something from this as well and hopefully make it…
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Ori is also a terrific guy in person. I had the honour of meeting him around 10 years ago and he is extremely humble and wise.
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I essentially became a fan through Myrddin which still looks like such a cool programming language. Barely did anything with it to be honest but secretly hope for it one day taking over the world. ;) But now I hope GEFS takes over the world. Hehe.
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> Unfortunately I don't think that "just write better" is a relatively easy fix The most worthwhile fixes are rarely the easiest. I don't think there's wrong with doing something hard.
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+1, I overlapped with him at the recurse center, greatly enjoyed chatting and enjoy whenever I see him around here tbh
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This is so exciting to see! I can't wait until it reaches testing.
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That's part of what I meant with self-obsessed. The whole "too obvious" feels silly in a world where people have trouble reproducing findings and then not being sure if it's because they did something that wasn't explicitly mentioned. Leaving things out feels like the opposite of science. And terminology as well often times varies a bit, enough…
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We've been doing something like the first-pass-reject round mentioned above more in the networking world (originally HotNets, now NSDI), and I really like it. It is a bummer to have your paper rejected at that round since it means you get less feedback, but at least you get a result fast, and hopefully the proceedings will be more fun and useful…
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Agreed! This is what I spend most of my time doing these days...
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